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1957 Sylvania Television Awards
The 1957 Sylvania Television Awards were presented on January 15, 1958, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Don Ameche was the master of ceremonies. The Sylvania Awards were established by Sylvania Electric Products. The committee presented the following awards: Special awards * ''Face the Nation'' for its interview of Nikita Khrushchev * ''See It Now'' for its program based on Marian Anderson's goodwill tour abroad * Mary Martin and Richard Halliday for NBC's presentation of '' Annie Get Your Gun'' * ''NBC Opera Theatre'' for "creative achievement in imaginative presentation of classical music" * ''Wide Wide World'' for "outstanding creative coverage of educational subjects" Category awards * Original teleplay - William Gibson for ''The Miracle Worker'', ''Playhouse 90'' * Television adaptation - James Lee for ''The Life of Samuel Johnson'' on ''Omnibus'' * Actor - Lee J. Cobb in ''No Deadly Medicine'' on '' Studio One'' * Actress - Kim Stanley in ''Traveling Lady'' on ''Stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvania Award
The Sylvania Awards were given by the television manufacturer Sylvania Electric Products for various categories of television performance, broadcasting, scripts, music and other aspects of production between 1951 and 1959. In their day they rivaled the Emmy Award for prestige. They came to an end after the sponsor was merged into GTE. History Sylvania Electric Products, a television set manufacturer, gave the annual Sylvania Awards from 1951. The awards were given for advancing creative television techniques. The Sylvania Award was as prestigious as the Emmy Award in the early days of television. It was one of several developed in the 1950s after the Emmy award was founded in 1949. Others included the ''TV Guide Award'' and the ''Look Magazine TV Award''. Ed Sullivan gave out the ''Michael'' award in Los Angeles from 1950 to 1953. In 1951 the Sylvania award for best program suitable for children was given to ''Zoo Parade'' by the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, headed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gibson (playwright)
William Gibson (November 13, 1914 – November 25, 2008) was an American playwright and novelist. He won the Tony Award for Best Play for ''The Miracle Worker'' in 1959, which he later adapted for the film version in 1962. Early life and education Gibson graduated from the City College of New York in 1938, and was of Irish, French, German, Dutch and Russian and Greek ancestry. Work as playwright Gibson's Broadway debut had been with ''Two for the Seesaw'' in 1958, a critically acclaimed two-character play which starred Henry Fonda and, in her own Broadway debut, Anne Bancroft. It was directed by Arthur Penn. Gibson published a chronicle of the vicissitudes of rewriting for the sake of this production with a nonfiction book in the following year, ''The Seesaw Log''. His most famous play is ''The Miracle Worker'' (1959), the story of Helen Keller's childhood education, which won him the Tony Award for Best Play after he adapted it from his original 1957 telefilm script. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Look Up And Live
''Look Up and Live'' was a 30-minute television anthology series. The series was produced in cooperation with the National Council of Churches and aired on CBS from January 3, 1954 to January 21, 1979. It was a non-denominational Sunday morning religious show that covered issues from multiple perspectives, avoiding heavy proselytizing. The series' success in reaching young people with inspirational messages was due partially to the contemporary musicians and celebrities featured on the show. In 1960, ''Look Up and Live'' received the Peabody Award. At that time, Andrew Young, Reverend Andrew Young was a host of the series. Young, who would later become a top aide to Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., was associate director of the Department of Youth Work for the National Council of Churches from 1957 to 1960. His duties included working on ''Look Up and Live'', both in front of and behind the camera. Young has said that the knowledge of television he gained during hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
''The Dinah Shore Chevy Show'' is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to May 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was " See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show. Synopsis The program began as a series of nine monthly specials substituting in the regular time slot of the ''Gillette Cavalcade of Sports''. NBC first tested the singing star in an hour long format with two prime time specials early in 1956. The first Chevy Show episode aired on October 5, 1956, with Frank Sinatra as guest. By this time, Shore was already a veteran television performer, having hosted five seasons of the 15-minute-long ''Dinah Shore Show'', also sustained by Chevrolet. It was in its final season (the final season for all 15-minute prime time network entertainment series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NBC Matinee Theater
''Matinee Theater'' is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from October 31, 1955, to June 27, 1958. Its name is often seen as ''Matinee Theatre''. The series, which ran daily from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern Time, was usually broadcast live and most of the time in color. Its live dramas were presented with minimal sets and costumes. It was the first daily hour-long dramatic series on television. When it was broadcast, ''Matinee Theater'' was the most heavily promoted regularly scheduled daytime program on U.S. television. Along with NBC's ''Home'', the show was part of the network's effort to "provide quality 'adult' entertainment" in daytime programming. In its second season, the program had an audience of 7 million daily viewers. The series ended in 1958 due to its high budget; much higher than any other daytime program in television. In 1956, the program's budget was "about $73,000" to produce five episodes per week. A few of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Paar
Jack Harold Paar (May 1, 1918 – January 27, 2004) was an American talk show host, author, radio and television comedian, and film actor. He was the second host of ''The Tonight Show'' from 1957 to 1962. ''Time'' magazine's obituary of Paar reported wryly, "His fans would remember him as the fellow who split talk show history into two eras: Before Paar and Below Paar." Early life and education Paar was born in 1918 in Canton, Ohio, the son of Lillian M. (Hein) and Howard Paar. He moved with his family to Jackson, Michigan, about south of Lansing, as a child. As a child, he developed a stutter, which he learned to manage. He contracted tuberculosis when he was 14 and left school at 16. Career Early career He first worked near home as a radio announcer at WIBM in Jackson, Michigan. As a radio announcer he was known to stop by the newspaper stand in front of the Jackson Citizen Patriot and pick up a freshly published copy of that local newspaper before going on to work where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Steve Allen Show
''The Steve Allen Show'' was an American variety show hosted by Steve Allen from June 1956 to June 1960 on NBC, from September 1961 to December 1961 on American Broadcasting Company, ABC,The Steve Allen Show from the Museum of Broadcast Communications and in first-run broadcast syndication, syndication from 1962 to 1964. The first three seasons aired on Sunday nights at 8:00pm Eastern Time, directly opposite ''The Ed Sullivan Show''. It moved to Mondays at 10:00pm Eastern in the 1959–60 season under the name ''The Steve Allen Plymouth Show'' (sponsored by Plymouth (automobile), Plymouth automobile). After a season's absence, the series briefly returned on Wednesdays at 7:30pm Eastern. The syndicated version aired mostly in late nights. The program, between September 1957 and June 1960, became one of the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hallmark Hall Of Fame
''Hallmark Hall of Fame'', originally called ''Hallmark Television Playhouse'', is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City-based greeting card company. The longest-running prime-time series in the history of television, it first aired in 1951 and continues into the present day. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been broadcast in color. It was one of the first video productions to telecast in color, a rarity in the 1950s. Many television films have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty-one Emmy Awards, dozens of Christopher and Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is one of the last remaining television programs where the title includes the name of its sponsor. Unlike othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patty McCormack
Patricia McCormack (born Patricia Ellen Russo in 1945) is an American actress with a career in theater, films, and television. McCormack began her career as a child actress. She is perhaps best known for her performance as Rhoda Penmark in Maxwell Anderson's 1956 psychological drama ''The Bad Seed''. She received critical acclaim for the role on Broadway and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Mervyn LeRoy's film adaptation. Her acting career has continued with both starring and supporting roles in film and television, including Helen Keller in the original ''Playhouse 90'' production of ''The Miracle Worker'', Jeffrey Tambor's wife Anne Brookes on the ABC sitcom ''The Ropers'', and as Pat Nixon in '' Frost/Nixon'' (2008). She also appeared in the November 11, 1982, season 3 episode 8..."Foiled Again" of ''Magnum, P.I.'' with Tom Selleck. She was also cast and appeared as Adriana La Cerva's mother in ''The Sopranos''. Life and career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DuPont Show Of The Month
''DuPont Show of the Month'' was a 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour dramatic anthology series hosted by June Allyson, ''The DuPont Show with June Allyson'' (1959–61). During the Golden Age of Television, ''DuPont Show of the Month'' was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled ''Playhouse 90'' and other anthologies, but ''DuPont Show of the Month'' focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including ''Oliver Twist'', ''The Prince and the Pauper'', ''Billy Budd'', ''The Prisoner of Zenda'', ''A Tale of Two Cities'' and ''The Count of Monte Cristo''. Directors and writers The directors for the series included Sidney Lumet, Ralph Nelson, Alex Segal and Robert Mulligan. ''DuPont Show of the Month'' was the first anthology series to stage a television dramatization of Thornton Wilder's only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torin Thatcher
Torin Herbert Erskine Thatcher (15 January 1905 – 4 March 1981) was a British actor who was noted for his flashy portrayals of screen villains. Personal life Thatcher was born in Bombay, British India, to British parents, Torin James Blair Thatcher, a police officer, and his wife Edith Rachel, a voice and piano teacher, younger daughter of the Hon. Justice Sir Herbert Batty, a puisne judge of the High Court of Bombay.Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage, 1931, pg 908 He was educated in England at Bedford School and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He worked as a schoolmaster before first appearing on the London stage in 1927 and then entering British films in 1934. Career In 1935 he appeared in the historical play '' Mary Tudor''. He appeared in the 1937 Old Vic production of ''Hamlet'', in which Laurence Olivier made his first appearance in the title role, opposite Vivien Leigh as Ophelia. During the Second World War, he served with the Royal Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Stanley
Kim Stanley (born Patricia Kimberley Reid; February 11, 1925 – August 20, 2001) was an American actress, primarily in television and theatre, but with occasional film performances. She began her acting career in theatre, and subsequently attended the Actors Studio in New York City, New York. She received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her role in '' The Chase'' (1952), and starred in the Broadway productions of ''Picnic'' (1953) and '' Bus Stop'' (1955). Stanley was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her roles in ''A Touch of the Poet'' (1959) and ''A Far Country'' (1962). In the 1950s Stanley was a prolific performer in television; she later progressed to film, with a well-received performance in '' The Goddess'' (1959). She was the narrator of ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' (1962), and starred in '' Séance on a Wet Afternoon'' (1964), for which she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
